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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 1915814, member: 4910&quot;]I added the film &quot;Moby Dick&quot; to my &quot;Coins in Movies&quot; webpage.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The 1956 Warner Brothers film &quot;Moby Dick&quot; has a famous scene where the captain of a whaling ship nails a gold coin to the mast as a reward for the seaman who first spots a &quot;special&quot; whale.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The film is based on Herman Melville&#039;s famous 1851 novel about an 1840&#039;s whaling voyage commanded by a Captain Ahab who is obsessed with pursuing and killing a white whale named &quot;Moby Dick&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The film stars Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, Friedrich Ledebur as Queequeg, and was directed by John Huston.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_mobydick_01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>01. Captain Ahab with the gold doubloon</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_mobydick_02.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>02. The gold doubloon nailed to the mast</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The coin is a gold Ecuador Republic 8 Escudos or &quot;doubloon&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These particular types were minted from 1838 to 1843 in Quito, Ecuador.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The coin reads &quot;REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR / QUITO / M.V.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Although the captain calls the coin an &quot;ounce&quot;, it is actually around 8/10 of an ounce of gold, worth then around $16 US dollars.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The coin in the film is no doubt a prop coin, possibly minted on one side only.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Real coins of this type sell for $10,000 to over $20,000, they are sometimes called</p><p>&quot;Moby Dick coins&quot; due to their mention in the book.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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